The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

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Fiction THE COLLECTED STORIES OF Katherine Anne Porter WINNER OF A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND A PULITZER PRIZE Despite the enormous success-both critical and popular-of her növel Ship of Fools, Katherine Anne Porter s reputation as one of America's most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume brings together the collections Floweringjudas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form. Edmund Wilson has said of this master stylist, "Miss Porter writes English of a purity and precision almost unique in contemporary fiction." "Miss Porter's singularity as a writer is in her truthful explorations of a complete consciousness of life. Her prose is severe and exact; her ironies are subtle but hard. .. . Her power to make a landscape, a room, a group of people, thinkingly alive is not the vague, brutal talent of the postHemingway reporter but belongs to the explicit Jamesian period and suggests... Tovább

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Fiction THE COLLECTED STORIES OF Katherine Anne Porter WINNER OF A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND A PULITZER PRIZE Despite the enormous success-both critical and popular-of her növel Ship of Fools, Katherine Anne Porter s reputation as one of America's most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume brings together the collections Floweringjudas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form. Edmund Wilson has said of this master stylist, "Miss Porter writes English of a purity and precision almost unique in contemporary fiction." "Miss Porter's singularity as a writer is in her truthful explorations of a complete consciousness of life. Her prose is severe and exact; her ironies are subtle but hard. .. . Her power to make a landscape, a room, a group of people, thinkingly alive is not the vague, brutal talent of the postHemingway reporter but belongs to the explicit Jamesian period and suggests the whole rather than the surface of a life----She is an important writer in the genre because she solves the essential problem: how to satisfy exhaustively in writing briefly." -V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman "Few writers in America or anywhere else have matched [Miss Porter's] powers of deep poetic concentration, her intelligence, her responsiveness to the inner life of her characters, her sharp sense of the pressing forces of history, nationality, and social atmosphere." -Joseph Featherstone, The New Republic Vissza